Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Parable of the Snowman

It's been a great week! The Rolling hills ward is great and I'm loving the work we have to do in this area!

Lil porch snowmen survived the cold all night!

Last
Monday for pday we played basketball and made a snowman and it was just
a lot of fun. We had an interesting experience making the snow man. The
Elders who grew up in places where there was snow said the snow was no
good, The sisters said they didn't think it was good but they would be
willing to try and I said "i want to build a snow man and if we don't
try, it definitely won't happen, but the worst that can happen is we
tried." And so I went about making a snow man, the two who doubted sat
mocking and telling me it was a waste, the two who were unsure sat and
watched and after a moment hearkened unto me and so we went about making
a snow man. And so it was that we went about in faith making a snow man
and though the one we made was small, it was perfect and it was proof
that if we act the lord will bless us, even if it's something as small
as a snowman.

Elder Holms in unsafe territory (Syringa trailor park,
Moscow, Idaho)

Monday night we visited the Greshums and gave
Sis Greshum's two little boys a name tags that say "future missionary"
they were both really excited and it was cute to see one of them wearing
it at church so proudly this Sunday.

Tuesday
we had a fairly unexciting day, A really good lesson with an
investigator named Jill, a really nice visit with a lady at good
Samaritans sr home and we dropped off some scriptures and a movie for
one of our main investigators, Kelly.

Wednesday
We had a lot of appts fall through and did a lot of walking, I also was
surprised to find a box on the porch in the morning with some new
shoes!!! thanks Dad!

Thursday
we mapped out Syringa (a trailer park in our area) and made plans to
tract it out in the next week or two and we had a lesson with a new
investigator named Nancy at Bucer's coffee shop down town. It was fun. A really good lesson too. Then we had a lot of fun doing service at the
foodbank and spent the evening weekly planning.

Beautiful sky

Friday
we had zone training and learned some interesting new adjustments to
the rules, so now pdays will be run a little different. We had dinner at
the Bacon's, who are probably one of my favorite families in the ward
so far and had a good evening out in the cold.

Saturday
we spent a lot of time contacting LA's from the ward list, we had a
couple of not very nice people and a couple of really nice people. it's
always interesting to see what we get. that evening we had dinner at the
ST. Pierres and it was a really good dinner, just like eating at home!

Sunday
was amazing! Ward council before church then church was great, had a
lesson with Kelly right after church and taught about our bodies being
temples, E. Holmes had a little bit of an embarrassing moment, but it was
a really good lesson. that evening we had a lesson with the Picarellas
and it was absolutely awesome. we taught about prayer and it was great.
the husband always has tons of good questions and we were able to
connect really well with the family and he is feeling really close to
baptism. it was perfect.